Posted Monday 9th November 2009 23:30 GMT

My first laptop came from them, 8086, 512Kb, 2xfloppy drive for £500. Bought loads of gear from them over the years.

But once PC makers started selling cheap PCs to real people instead of just corporates they were doomed, surprised they lasted so long.

Opinion

David McLeman

My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

Will they have to drag him back like last time?

Are you getting what you want?

Playing the SLA long game

More than just middlemen...

Applications must work for the cloud to float

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust